Please notice that a new section (Sect 2.9.1) has been added where a short description of the performances of the new baffling system (installed in P94) is presented. For further updates during P95 please refer to the OmegaCam News page.

No changes wrt P93 Phase 2 except a note on the partial installation of an improved baffling mechanism on the VST (Sect. 2.9) that is expected to be completed during the first half of 2014. Please follow the updates in the OmegaCam News page.

To be used for P88 Phase 2 and P89 Phase 1. NOTE the User Manual updates regarding ADC and overheads (Sects. 3.2.2. and 3.4.4.).

The Survey Area Definition Tool - SADT

For the preparation of survey observations with VST the use of the Survey Area Definition tool is encouraged to define the survey layout. The tool and its documentation (cookbook and video tutorial) are available from:

The Phase 2 Proposal Preparation Tool - P2

The service mode observation for the ESO public survey requires to schedule a large number of observation blocks every year. This requires a p2 tool which can handle as well complex observing strategies. Please see the p2 page and OmegaCam p2 tutorial.

Related Documents

Illumination correction report by the OmegaCAM consortium, accepted version from July 4, 2012. This report describes the strategy to correct the OmegaCAM photometric calibration for the illumination variations within flat field exposures.

Two more detailed documents on the OmegaCAM detector system can be found here (Workshop on Scientific Detectors for Astronomy, June 20 - 24, 2005, Taormina, Italy) and here (SPIE Symposium, May 24 - 31, 2006, Orlando, Florida), courtesy of the ESO Optical Detector Group.